How do i install a 2nd harddrive?

[robkas]

Right now i have a Sata harddrive and its nearly full so i want to take my old harddrive (which is IDE) and put it in this computer.

how do i go about doing so?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Are you inquiring about the hardware installation, the software setup / installation, or both?

 

[Qianglong]

Plug in the power to the old HD, attach the IDE cable to the HD to the Mobo. Start windows and it should see the old HD

 

[NuAlphaMan]

Originally posted by: Qianglong
Plug in the power to the old HD, attach the IDE cable to the HD to the Mobo. Start windows and it should see the old HD

Make sure you have the PATA enabled on the mobo in the BIOS.

 

[robkas]

so i do this

1. shut off my computer

2. put the harddrive in and attack all cords

3. boot up my computer and windows will see a new hd and it will be called E: (i assume)

now if that is correct to reformat that hd do i do that same thing except instead of format C: i put format E: ?

then after i do that, do i have to anything else?

 

[DiverDave]

I had a similar question actually.

It seems that new MB have 1 IDE connector. It also looks like the DVD R/W is IDE if I read the descriptions correctly. So how does one hook up 2 different kinds of drives to 1 connector?

Bear in mind that I do not have a new computer that I am working on and am only in the planning phases of a new system. The main computer would be a SATA drive system but I would like to keep my old 40 G IDE drive as a backup data storage in case of a problem.

 

[HyunYu]

@robkas,

That's pretty much it, but you can also right-click on the newly installed HDD in the explorer and choose Format. Make sure there's no jumper conflict between the HDD and any optical drives.

@DiverDave,

Pretty much all IDE cables come with 3 connectors--one for the motherboard end, and two for the devices. The two grouped closer together than the other go to the drives. Again, you'll need to pay attention to the jumpers if you attach two IDE devices to a single cable--one has to be the master, the other the slave.

You might consider buying a $15-20 external USB2 enclosure and putting your 40GB drive in it--the performance will be a bit slower but it's good to have backups in a different physical location than the computer.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: robkas
so i do this

1. shut off my computer

2. put the harddrive in and attack all cords

3. boot up my computer and windows will see a new hd and it will be called E: (i assume)

now if that is correct to reformat that hd do i do that same thing except instead of format C: i put format E: ?

then after i do that, do i have to anything else?

1 and 2 are ok

3 On boot up look at the screen start up to see if the Bios recognizes the drive and make sure the drive is set on Cable select.

4) Right click on My computer goto Manage

5) Find Disk Management

6)Should see the new drive there where you can partition and format it and also assign a drive name.

Ausm